i never create new topics, and i have searched for a topic that i could say this in, but i did not find any topics that were appropriate.
i want to say in my preamble, that i do not expect any "hugs" or stuff like that, and i also will possibly not return to this thread to respond to any correspondence to me.
i always have had a dim view of the way humans pave the world over with their roads, and how they cut the trees down and level the ground so they can build houses for themselves, and make money to feed their families at the expense of what they see as lesser lives (innocent animals).
humans just bulldoze the habitat of non human lives in the self justified belief that they are god's favorite beings, and that the world belongs to them.
humans get a notion that they must go somewhere, and if any non human gets in their way, they will be annihilated..
the reason i am writing this is this:
today i was driving in my car along a road that was one lane in each direction. as i was driving along, i saw a pigeon sitting on the road in the center of the lane on the other side of the road. i thought "goodness! that bird looks like it is not going to move even if a car comes toward it". as i passed by, i saw that it did not look injured, and it was looking around in a terrified fashion, but it failed to get up and fly off as it should.
there were cars coming the other way, and i looked in my rear view mirror and i saw 4 cars drive straight over the top of the pigeon, but the pigeon was not hurt because it passed under the center of the cars.
i wondered how anyone that was driving toward it could continue to drive over it without stopping, as it was obvious that the pigeon was not going to move.
i decided to do a U turn and return to it, but i had to go another 500 metres (1/3 mile approx) before i could do a U turn due to the narrowness of the road.
i intended go back to the bird and stop where the bird was and put my hazard lights on, and i did not care less how many people got angry behind me. i was going take my shirt off and gather the bird in my shirt and take it to a vet. i would have told the vet that i would pay whatever it takes to help it.
as i was desperately looking for where i could do a U turn my heart started to panic on behalf of the bird, and i felt so deeply the panic it must have felt having to let cars undercarriages pass over it's head. i thought "because the bird is in the middle of the lane, then there is little chance that any tire would have hit him by the time i get back there".
when i got back there, i saw it was flattened on the road. it was squashed as flat as a piece of cardboard.
i pulled over and took about 20 minutes to recover, and i hated humanity more than i ever did before.
heaven did not help that sweet little one that was so helpless in the face of humans who flattened it on their way to their non essential destinations.
i have not yet gotten it out of my system. the bird was alive and looking around in fear, and i so understood what it must be feeling, and a few minutes later it was pressed feathers and blood squished on the road.
everyone must have seen that it was alive as they drove toward it, and no one thought it important enough to stop and prevent it from being run over.
and as i write this, i see a justin bieber ad on the left and i just think "what a twisted species of animal are humans"
whatever. sorry to take up your time, but that pigeon had one life in the forever of time and it is gone now. i created a new thread solely for the memory of that sweet birds life.